seminar « small farms »
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Rural Seuca August 2010. Seminar « Small farms ». A collaboration between research and civil society France, 22nd-23rd of January, 2009. Who and why ?. The goal. Knowing and recognising small farms. The partnership. National research institute for agriculture. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Edition : Catherine Darrot Presentation : Marie-Luce Ghib
Rural Seuca 2010
Seminar « Small farms »
A collaboration between research and civil society
France, 22nd-23rd of January, 2009
Rural Seuca August 2010
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Edition : Catherine Darrot Presentation : Marie-Luce Ghib
Rural Seuca 2010
Who and why ?
The goal
Knowing and recognising small farms
The partnership
National research institute for agriculture
Confédération paysanne :
A French syndicate involved in the promotion of peasant-like farming systems
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Aim of the seminar
The operating modes and the diversity of the small-scale farms remain badly-known.
Some researchers however work on these subjects, while some peasants do experiment and analyse daily those systems.
The aim of this seminar was to develop more common and in-deep analysis.
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Edition : Catherine Darrot Presentation : Marie-Luce Ghib
Rural Seuca 2010
Why initiating such a partnership ?
Re-mobilising the scientific community around the problematic of small farms
Initiating and encouraging innovative researches and debate
Allow the syndicate of peasant-like farmers “Confédération paysanne” to situate and know the researchers actually working on those subjects
Defining common problematics between farmers and researchers
For researchers
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Edition : Catherine Darrot Presentation : Marie-Luce Ghib
Rural Seuca 2010
Why initiating such a partnership ?
Re-mobilising the scientific community around the problematic of small farms
Initiating and encouraging innovative researches and debate
Allow the syndicate of peasant-like farmers “Confédération paysanne” to situate and know the researchers actually working on those subjects
Defining common problematics between farmers and researchers
For farmers
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Edition : Catherine Darrot Presentation : Marie-Luce Ghib
Rural Seuca 2010
Some of the trends raised
The small farmers are facing some difficulties :
• Competition for access to land
• Weak representation within the professional sphere
• Uncertainties related to their social security system (“cotisant solidaire” = uncertain statute)
• Sanitary rules not adapted to smaller farms ; higher spendings to reach the norms regarding to the small scale of the farms
• Farming systems presented as non viable by official institutions
The “small farms” however contribute to dynamism of rural territories.
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Research questions raised
Are those small farms contributing to change the relationship between society and agriculture ?
How do they renew the combination of activities ? How do they reveal some new aspects of diversification ?
How are they specifically raising some more general issues as vulnerability, fragility, resilience and flexibility ?
… How many are they ? Which reliable statistical data ?
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Edition : Catherine Darrot Presentation : Marie-Luce Ghib
Rural Seuca 2010
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